Yaffe, Debby

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Yaffe, Debby

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  • Yaffe, Deborah

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    • Frisch, Debby
    • Gregory, Debby

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    1943 -

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    Debby (Deborah) Yaffe is a feminist, activist and retired University of Victoria Department of Women’s Studies senior instructor. Yaffe (née Frisch) was born in 1943 and grew up in Southern California. She attended University of Southern California Los Angeles in the 1960s. Taking her husband’s last name, Gregory, she and her husband lived in Europe with their son, moving to London in the 1970s. It was there, while working as a teacher, that Yaffe became involved in the women’s movement through her attendance at consciousness-raising group meetings. She subsequently formed her own group and took part in feminist actions. Yaffe later returned to the United States on her own and eventually settled in Victoria, British Columbia, with her family. After her divorce, she took her mother’s maiden name, Yaffe. In Victoria, she volunteered with Everywomen's Books, worked as a paid staff member for the local office of the Victoria Status of Women Action Group, from 1986 to 1988, and was involved in organizing around key issues such as abortion rights.<br>
    Yaffe was approached to teach Introduction to Women’s Studies at the University of Victoria in 1990 and she retired in 2004. She holds a master’s degree in Women’s Studies and is a 2001 recipient of UVic Alumni Association’s award for excellence in teaching. Yaffe is one of the founders, along with former university archivist Jane Turner, of the Victoria Women’s Movement Archives at UVic Archives. Yaffe’s publications include:</br><br>
    “Feminism in principal and in practice: Everywomans Books,” <i>Atlantis</i> V. 21, NO. 1 (Fall, 1996) 154-157;
    “Introducing Jewish feminist thought in a women's studies classroom,” <i>Canadian Woman Studies</i>, V. 16, NO. 4 (Fall, 1996), 56-59</br>

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    Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
    London, England
    Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

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